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The Bozeman weekly chronicle., 1887-04-06

Mr.. Tilton is passing now, he tells his
friends, the most peaceful and contented
years of his life. 1t is three years since
he domiciled himself in Paris, and he will
probably end his days there. He Inns O
floor in grand old mansion, once the
home Of the Dues de Nemours, an ancient
building on the lie de Paris, back of Notre
Dame, in the very heart of historic asso-
Citations. Here he spends much of his time,
writing, reading, living happily within
himself. For the rest, he is free to dine
wherever his vagrant fancy dictates, to
md companionship wherever he chooses.
Most often he is TO be met late afternoons
at the Cafe Regence, one of the very few
OF the famous pre-revolution resorts which
the Ilaussmanuization of the right bank
OF the Seine has left intact. Here for q
century and more have the best chess
players OF Paris assembled. Alfred de
Musset was a habitue, and many of the
Older men remember him well.
A far more distinguished frequeuter of
the Regence-whom few enough of the
company can recall having seen even in
MS later lifc-was a certain keen eyed,
aquiline noscd young lieutenant of artil-
lery, NJ. Napoleon Bonaparte. A little
metal tablet is set into the dark marble of
ono OF the tables recording that here the
tnturc emperor was won't to sit and school
his mind for Marengo and Austerlitz in
hemazcs of chess. fancy that no dreams
IT fame or of especial achievement come
now to Mr. Tiiton The work upon which
he Is engaged is understood to be cphem-
eral in character-tlone as much for the
sake of occupation and mental relief as
anything else. His chief interest is to like
his life and TO keep it smooth, uneventful,
restiul, within the compass of simple de-
slres and pleasant associations.-New
York Times.
The Bozeman weekly chronicle., 1887-04-06
Oldest Cremationis.s on Earth.

"Alaskan Indians arc perhaps the Oldest
race of cremationists on the face of the
earth. All their dead, except their medi
cine men, are burned. The crematory is
very simple, yet nevertheless, effective.
When corpse is to be crematctl, it is first
removed from the house through the hole
in the roof, or through an aperture made
in one of the walls by removing log, tit
is bad luck to carry it ont through the
door and carried to n funeral pyre of
wood built in the form of hollow rect
angle, measuring four feet long, four feet
wide, and from three to six feet in depth.
The corpse is bundled into the pyre, which
Is then lighted. Dry cord wood is then
thrown in on top Of the corpse until the
opening is filled. The relatives sit around
the burning pile four or five hours until
everything is consumed. The cremation
is always complete. The ashes of the
dead man, and OF course more or less
wood ashes, arc gathered mp placed in a
wooden box and carried TO little grave
house, rs it is called. Lieut.. II. T.
Monahan in Brooklyn Eagle.
The Bozeman weekly chronicle., 1887-04-06

Said Canadian to scribe recently
Tobogganing is essentially Canadian
sport. Not because Canada is the land of
winter SHOWS, but because Canadian life,
Canadian manners are not the manners of
the 'staies.' You may say all You please
about our slowness, our want of enter
prise; that we nt-English the English in
our snobbishncss; still, the fact remains
that we manage tn get a great deal of en-
joymcnt ont of life. OF course a great
deal is said about the fast life of Amcr-
cans; but believe with the majority the
trouble lies more in the long hours of
work In which You indulge. / can't sec
where the rapid life comes in, unless 1t be
the slow, steady grind for 300 day in the
year. Now, tobogganing, like great
many other of our sports, cannot he
taken up at odd hours. To thoroughly
enjoy tohogganinG party one should
have the whole afternoon and evening;
and when You get into bed at night you
feel as il you had really been doing some
thing worth talking about. The average
Canadian works, as II rule, about half the
dny. The remainder is pretty well taken
up with sports Of some kind or another,
especially in winter.-BufIalo Express.
The Bozeman weekly chronicle., 1887-04-06

The Washingtons drank wine at their
dinners, and the collection of Washing
toms household effects in the National
museum in Washington shows that the
family possessed much aesthetic taste.
Their china contained many choice bits
In the collection there is an immense
punch bowl and several wine services, and
the chaplain of congress the time Wash
ington was president records presidential
dinner at which he says that Gen. Wash
ington had a silver pint cup of beer ut his
plate, which he drank while eating. The
Washington family had much fine wine in
their cellars at Mount Vernon; but though
washington drank glass or so of Ma
deira at his meals, there is no record of his
ever having drunk too much. That
Martha Washington appreciated the value
OF good wine is evidenced by her will. In
u she gives pipe of wine to George
washington Parke Custis, and directs
that all the wine bottles in the Mount
Vernon vanlts be equally divided between
her granddaughtcrs and grandson. Frank
G, CarDenter
The Bozeman weekly chronicle., 1887-04-06

One day when the temperature was in
the neighborhood of nothing, a couple Of
colored inhabitants of Bucktown were
overheard discussing the good luck which
horse shoe brings. Both of the partici-
pants In the debate were OF the feminine
gender. One was young, good looking
and fairly dressed, and affected all the
fashionable furbelows of her white sisters,
while the other looked US if she had been
participant in the first Punic war. Her
face had been gashed with q razor, one
eye was gone and as she walked she hob
bled as if one leg had stopped growing be-
fore the other had. She wore q faded
calico dress, and there was nothing to in
dictate that she wore anything else to keep
off the keen and cutting air.
~ tell yo', Hannah, yo' ought ter git a
hoss shoe and nail ober yo doah. Dare's
no better way ter keep out de cold and bad
luck, " said the young coiored Hebe, who,
though protected by cloak, was shiver-
ing.
"Dare's nothing in it, honey" answered
the relic, as her teeth ratified together;
"dare's nothing in it. When / got mar
ried | got n hull blacksmith shop full OBJ
hoss shoes and nailed 'em all 0ber my
house. Dey almost took de place OBJ
de shingles on de roof, so many was dare;
and look at me now. Dare's mo- in q
good days washin' dan in hundred hoss
Shoes, honey. Times Star.
The Bozeman weekly chronicle., 1887-04-06

"You never heard of negroes dying Of
consumption before the war;" said an ex-
Virginin slave the other day. at is only
within the past twenty-five years that the
disease has fastened its clutches upon our
people. In the old days it was Il pretty
lazy coon that caught anything worse
than n licking. The slave always had too
much 10 do TO spend any time lying around
for consumption to light upon him. He
got up early in the morning, worked hard
all day and went TO bed early at night.
He ate 'possum and yams, and sang and
danced when the days work was done.
This sort Of living and exercise made the
slave proof against consumption and lung
discusses. 1t is all different now. There
are n heap of young 'coons' lying round
town playing Christmas gigs in the policy
shops and shooting craps in some alley,
who are keeping open house for just such
callers as spinal meningitis and consump-
ton. ."-Chicago Herald.
The Bozeman weekly chronicle., 1887-04-06
SCARED INTO REFORMATION.
An Old Railroader's Story-A Close Call
for u Drunken Man.


for u Drunken Man.
"Out on our Nebraska line, near Sutton,
Clay county," said q railroaGler, who for
many years had owed allegiance to the
great Chicago, Burlington and Quincy,
"there use'l to live man named Potter
n rather old man, who had seen better
days, but who was then living in dugout,
about two miles from town, and close by
the railroad track. lie was q fearful old
drunkard, too, and used to go to town
about every other day and fill up at Pat
Curran's saloon, starting home late in the
evening, and always taking the railroad
track. Being an old man, and not able to
stand such big and bad doses of liquor as
Pat gave him, he often fell down on the
track and went TO sleep. Time and again
our boys stopped their trains on discover
ing old Potter ahead, and of course, saved
his life every time they did it. 1t got to
be so that il was a rulo Of the road along
by Sutton to look out for old Potter
After time the boys got tired of it, and
got the local agent to notify the old man
that he'd got To keep OIL the track or get
hurt. This had no effect, and Potter used
uur tics for II bed u 'tc as often as before.
One winters night in 1874 Dave Thomp-
son-he's now superintendent at Lincoln,
night Dave was running an extra cattle
train from Lowell, and MS they reached
the top of the hill going down to Sutton,
Dave was in the engine cab, and he said:
"'Kccp sharp lookout for old Potter.
II he's on let's give him scare
"Pretty soon the engineer sighted
dilapidated form ahead on the track, and
declared that il was the old man. Whistle
for brakes said Thompson, hut let her
run pretty free, and we'll shake the old
man up Bit
''The boys all entered into the spirit Of
thing. Their purpose was to run the loco
motives nose right into the old man and
rouse him without hurting him, with the
idea Of giving him good scare. But the
weight Of the train and the grade proved
pretty bad things to calculate to such
fine point, and when the locomotive
reached the old man the boys all had
their hearts in their throats and feeling
that they were little better than murder
ers. They jumped down, expecting to
find Potter all mashed to pieces, but there
he was under the engine, snug up against
the fire box, where he had been rolled and
pushed along on the snow for two or three
rods, He was evidently warm on the
side next the fire box and cold on the
other, for just MS the boys got to him they
heard him mutter;
:" Il shay, ole 'oman-shay-yer pullln'
all 'er cover off'n me-
"Well, the boys got him out, and were
delighted to find that he wasn't much
hurt. As soon as they got him thor
Oughly reused he was the most fright
ened man that ever was, That scare
proved his salvation, for he braced up and
reformed, and now owns one of the finest,
best stocked farms i'll Clay county. got
this story from one Of our Nebraska men,
and know it to be true. Chicago Herald
"Train Talk"
The Bozeman weekly chronicle., 1887-04-06

In the simplicity ofits doctoring methods
lew nations are much in advance of the
Siamese. A great number of diseases are
popnlhrly supposed to he the result of
spirit possession. The doctor in charge of
case OF this kind ties II string around the
room in view of the patient, decorates it
with pieces of paper containing mysterious
hicroglyphics, and then, brandishing n
Knife, commands The spirit to come out.
Clay images are also used for the spirits
TO nnler- and when satisfied that they have
done so, the limoges are wheeled out Of
town upon carts. When the patient is
convinced that the evil spirit has left his
mind becomes tranIuilizrd, and he stands
y beticr chance for recovery.-Herald of
Gs.lls
The Bozeman weekly chronicle., 1887-04-06

The venerable james jackson, who was
the Nestor OF the medical profession for SO
long time in Boston, used To say that a
man came to the prime of his effective fac
ulties when he was 65 years old. He said
that 1t was true that the curve of physical
strength was then declining. But expert
ence and the ability to act which comes
from experience are, of course, constantly
improving while memory holds. Accord
ing to DIR. jackson the curve of experience
and the curve of physical life cross each
other at the age Of 65.-Boston Journal
The Bozeman weekly chronicle., 1887-04-06

The depreciation in the valne Of Eng.
liSh land is witnessed by one " two state
mcnls published last week We are. in
the first place, told that within radius
Of twelve miles aronnl I.outh, in Lincoln.
shire, there arc now %, 400 acres of land
without tenants. In the same shire the
largest farm in England has been thrown
on the owners hands. 1t is ZOO acres
IN extent AMI the tenant paid 81 per acre.
This year reduction Of so per cent was
made TO him, but finding, although an
experienced and energetic farmer, that
even ut this reduction lie could not make
Two ends meet, lie las thrown up his
farm.-London Court Journal.
The Bozeman weekly chronicle., 1887-04-06

The only piece Of gold plate ever found
in Egypt, now on its way to the Museum
Of Fine Arts, is the massive handle to a
tray used in the royal service of Pharaoh
Hophra, at the biblical Tahpanhes CJere-
mial, y, y, to which place came Jeremiah,
who doubtless here wrote his ;I.amenta.
tions, " with the fugitive princesses of Ju-
dab. The plate is among the gifts of the
Egypt exploration fund, which disclosed
this most interesting sight where Nebu-
chadnezzar burned the palace or castle be-
cause Hophra had received the fugitives.
Home journal.
The Bozeman weekly chronicle., 1887-04-06

There are very few wolves in Prussia,
only four having been killed, and it is {.
curious fact that the German wolves
seem to have followed the German army
almost en- masse into France during the
winter of 1870, snd to have remained
there. In the provinces of Alsace and
Lorraine the number of wolves killed dur,
ing ihc year was thirty-seven, in addition
~ 2,GSO foxes and 152 wildcats. s.-Londor
Tunes,
The Bozeman weekly chronicle., 1887-04-06
Purlhes the Blood

Henry Biggs, Campbell Street, Kansas City,
had scrofulous sores all over his body for
fifteen years. Hoods Sarsaparilla completely
cured him.
Wallace Buck, Of North Bloomfield, N. Y,
suffered eleven years with a terrible varicose
ulcer on his leg, so bad that he had to give
up business. He was cured Of the ulcer. and
also Of catarrh, by
The Bozeman weekly chronicle., 1887-04-06

George M. Pullman began life as II cab;-
net maker, and was forced to emi~rate
with his family from the little cu,u.ry
town where he lived in order to save tlietp
from starvation.
The Bozeman weekly chronicle., 1887-04-06
The Oft Told Story

Of tho peculiar medicinal merits of Hoods
Sarsaparilla Is fully confirmed by the volur-
tary testimony Of thousands who have tried
1t. Peculiar in the combination, proportion,
and preparation Of its Ingredients, peculiar
in the extreme care with which it is put
up, Hoods Sarsaparilla accomplishes cures
where other preparations entirely fail. Pecu-
liar in the unequalled good name 1t has made
at home, which Is n "tower OF strength
abroad" peculiar in the phenomenal sales
1t has attained,
The Bozeman weekly chronicle., 1887-04-06

NHII can live at home, and make
more money at work for us,
WI than OF any thing else in this
world. Capital not needed, you
are started free. Both sexes, all ages. Any
one can do the work Large earnings sure from
first start: Costly outfit and terms free. Bet
ter moi delay. Costs you nothing to send us
your address and find out; If you are wise you
land, Maine.
The Bozeman weekly chronicle., 1887-04-06
Hoods SarsapariIIa

Is the most popular and successful medicine
before the public today for purifying the
blood, giving strength, creating an appetite.
81 suffered from wakefulness and low
spirits, and also had eczema on the back Of
my head and neck, which was very annoying.
took one bottle Of Hoods Sarsaparilla, and
have received so much beneflt that I am
very grateful, and am always glad TO speak
good word for this medicine" Mrs. J. s.
SNYDER, pnttsYille Penn
Smyrna times., 1887-09-28
Personal.

Rev. John p. DuHamel. D. u of
Church Hill, Nd, was the 0uest Of
COi; geo. n. Raymond on Monday, and
made the TINES Office a friendly call
Miss Sallie Hess, of Baltimore. is a
guest of Mrs. P. Spruance, at Font
John H. HOfIecker left yesterday for
Montreal, Canada, accompanied bv
Geo. V. Massey, Esq, of Dover. his at
tOrney in the settlement of the Horace
ID. Clark estate.
VIM: Corbit Spruance, Esq, and Miss
Sallle Spruance, of Wilmington; John
z. Corbit and wife, of Odessa, and John
Peterson, of Philadelphia, attended the
funeral Of Mrs. Ann Spruance in this
town on Saturday.
John Appleton and wife, of Odessa.
were the guests of John H. HoGecker
Saturday and Sunday.
We give an interesting deserintive
letter from A. P. Griffith, who left this
Town on Tuesday of last week for
North Carolina.
Harry w. Jefferson, who went to
ontario. Canada, six weeks ago, is ex-
pected home in day or two.
DIR. e. 0. Swinney and family return
home tomorrow after weeks visit at
Shiloh, n J. ~
Miss Hanna VanGasken has gone to
Milford to attend the wedding Of Miss
Lena Marshall, daughter of DR.. WIN.
Marshall, who will be united in mar.
rage tomorrow TO Mr.. Allen d. Jones.
of Elkton, Md.
Thos. Il. Graham; son of John w.
Graham, 1.-THE intelligent Kenton cor.
respondent of the TIMEsl left vester.
day to enter Dickinson College.
Mrs. H. r. Walker. of Middletowp
ana Mrs. Jacob G. Deakyne, of viii
mington, are spending o week with
John Cosgrif
Smyrna times., 1887-09-28

The congregation at Blackstone
chapel on Sunday afternoon had an in
teresting addition to the services in n
marriage ceremony, unexpected by the
most of them, but enjoyed none the
less for this reason, especially. the
younger portion of the audience. It
was the quarterly meeting occasion.
Presiding Elder France having charge
Ofthe services. At the close Of the SER
mon or before the dismissal of the CON
gregatiOn, the candidates for matri-
mOny, William Turner and Miss Rachel
A. Broadway, accompanied by Frank
Turner and Miss Ida Hofecker who
acted as grOomsman and bridesmaid.
proceeded to the altar where in the
midst of the interest excited, Rev. Mr.
France proceeded tOsOlOmnise the mar
Triage, ending by prOnouncing them
husband and wife. OF course thew re-
ceived the congratulations of their
friends present, after which the bridal
party proceeded to the residence of the
brides father, VIM. NJ. Broadway
where a reception with refreshments
was given.
Smyrna times., 1887-09-28
The Circus.

The SUSSEX Journal while speaking
of Wallaces & Co. IS show as good and
the company proper as composed of a
better class of men than usual, (exhib-
iting in Georgetown last week., thus
speaks Of the thimble riggers that fol-
low it: 1.-THE gambling and tricks are
part of the circus, and notwithstand-
ing the gentlemanly department of the
managers and attaches the circus is re-
spOnsible for them. They got MANY a
hard earned dOllOr in Georgetown last
Wednesday. Some We're foolish
enough to be taken in by the soap man
again. Men should not be so crazy as
to be duped by these sharpers at their
own games but they are, and the law
should step in and protect them. It is
said that a Laurel man lost 1925 at the
thimble rigger's table in that town on
Tuesday, and J. w. Parker at Sails
bury lost $40 on Monday but the
gamblers were compelled to disgorge.
while at Milford it is said they took off
between $400 and $500, fleeing one
man to the tune of $225.'
Smyrna times., 1887-09-28
The Preachers Convention.

The Preachers Of this part of Easton
district, as per announcement. met
mere yesterday at the summons of
Fresldlng Elder France to discuss mat
ters relating to the ministry and the
general interest of the church. CLOSING
their session this afternoon. The sub
Jects of their deliberations PERTAINING
entirely to themselves, of course were
not intended for publication. A pubIic
meeting was however held last night to
which the congregation was Invited
ming the lecture room, the Rev. r. H.
Adams, of MiddletOwn, having been
announced as the preacher for the oc-
casion. He took for his text. "Tbon
shalt guide me by the counsel and af-
forwards receive me to Glory" which
served as a good foundation to show
the trials and triumphs ofthe christian
In the speakers, earnest. fervid and inn
presslve manner. The sermon elected
the closest attention of the entire an
dience. The following are the minis
tiers in attendance Presiding Elder
john France, Revs. VIM. S. Robinson
and E. E. White this town; E. C. At
klns, CeciltOn S. M. Morgan. Town
send; w. Sears, Sassafras: r. K
Millington; Wells w. w
wilson, Easton; r. H. Adams, Mid
and T. o. Ayers, Presiding
Elder of Salisbury District. the latter
visiting his former home before going
into the ministry, as we'll as conferrinS
with the brethren"
Smyrna times., 1887-09-28
A Chat With John Wanamaksr

John Wanamaker, the great Pbilo-
9elphla merchant, returned last week
from visit to Europe. The Ledoer
contained long interview with him
noting the progress on this side of the
Atlantic in comparison with the CON
serVatlsm on the other, of which the
| following is an extract
see from it the Centennial Cele-
oraUiOn every room for hope and. in
iact, Oh confidence in the belief that in
Tune the United States will largely all
soro the business of the world, and in
That absorption Philadelphia will ne.
suredly come in for the lions share
mere we've prOspered in everything
mat we have undertaken, and fo-dey
we stand at least 100 years ahead of the
countries of Continental Europe-not
only IN our Improvement in telegrapbv
and all the mechanical arts bnt IN
everything that goes to make n nation
emlnently great, prosperous and Der-
manent. Whilst they have held on
with strange and vise-like tenacitv to
thelr old habits and old ways of work
we've gone on changing. altering
amending, always improving. With
tnem It seems almost a crime to stem
aside from the beaten track that their
Iorelathers followed. There the work
man OF to-day uses the crude imple-
ments and machinery of years apO-
Jhlngs which we have long since dis
carded and replaced with improved
TOOLS and machinery capable of doing
infinitely more and better work. and
producing larger and more profitable
returns. Again, they rarely, if ever
change their patterns, and some of
them call this conservatism. Is it any
wonder, then, that the workman. who |
cllngs to his Old-fashioned patterns. |
looms, and tools, is badly left in the |
march Of progress and Of civilization |
Or, that the number of his patrons and |
the prices of his goods are constantly |
lessening? Don't forget another point /
while he gets less for the products of |
his skill, we get considerably more. and |
we pay about the same amount. possi-
bly, very much less for the crude arti-
Gle than he does. Take it anv wav
you like, view it in any phase that YOU
please, your conclusion Twill undoubt-
eddy be that the country in which such
a state of things exists cannot keen
pace with nation whose citizens are
more enlightened and more enterpris-
ing.
OF the great nations Of Europe
Germany Is, to my mind, far ahead of
oil others, aud, under the admirable
and wise measures proposed and fos.
tered by Bismarck, Il is rapidly leav-
ing France and England behind. Its
industries are great, multiplying and
both in their number, char
acter and capacity. So much have I
been struck with these facts that I've
started large factory there, and. al
.hough only a tWelve-month old. ID Il
Producing very satisfactory returns
5ermaany is taking away much 81 the
'rench trade, and is continually on the
ookout for improvements in the metb- Z
~ q manufacturing her stuIfs aud
anfles aud in her designs {
what Of England2 She Is almost !
Smyrna times., 1887-09-28

A SHIP arrived last week from the
Mediterranean Sea with a cargo of en-
igrants sick with cholera, and among
whom had been eight deaths. OF
course the ship was put at once under
quarantine. In addition to a sense of re-
lief that this disease was not brought
over until the approach of cold weather.
was the other fact that the health COM
missioners feel perfectly able to stamp
1t out. They regard the disease as less
dangerous than diphtheria. because it
more readily yields to sanitary mea-
sures. Yellow fever and similar dis
eases appear evey year at Quarantine
but they never get to the city.